ABIWORD(1)						      General Commands Manual							ABIWORD(1)

NAME

       abiword -- flexible cross-platform word processor

SYNOPSIS

       abiword [OPTIONS] [FILENAME...]

DESCRIPTION

       AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application suitable for a wide range of word processing tasks, and extensible with a
       variety of plugins. It integrates with enchant(1) to provide spell-checking.

OPTIONS

       -g WxH[+X+Y], --geometry=WxH[+X+Y]
	      Specifies window geometry at startup.

       -E PLUGIN, --plugin=PLUGIN
	      Execute the specified plugin instead of the main application.

       --import-extension=EXT
	      Import the given file as if it had extension EXT, overriding automatic file type detection.

       -u PROFILE, --userprofile=PROFILE
	      Use PROFILE instead of the default ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile to read and store settings.

       -t DEST, --to=DEST
	      Convert the given file to another format, writing the result to DEST.  The format of DEST is determined by its extension.
	      See also --to=FORMAT and --to-name.

       -t FORMAT, --to=FORMAT
	      Convert the given files(s) to the given format. Unless explicitly specified with --to-name, the original filename will be used (with
	      a different extension, if necessary). See also EXAMPLES.

	      The more popular values for FORMAT include:

		     abw    Abiword XML format (zabw for gzip, bzabw for bzip2 compression)
		     dbk    DocBook XML
		     doc    Microsoft Word binary format
		     docx   Office Open XML (newer Microsoft Word versions)
		     html   Hypertext Markup Language
		     kwd    KWord
		     odt    OpenDocument Text
		     pdf    Portable Document Format
		     rtf    Rich Text Format
		     sxw    OpenOffice.org Writer 1.0
		     txt    Plain text

       --to-name=DEST
	      Only useful in conjunction with --to=FORMAT.  Specifies where the converted document shall be written to.

       --verbose=LEVEL
	      Set level of verbosity [0-2], 2 giving the most detailed output.

       -h, --help
	      Display a short help message and exit.

       --version
	      Report the version of AbiWord.

EXAMPLES

       To convert the document example.abw to RTF:
	   abiword --to=rtf example.abw
       The resulting file will be named example.rtf.

       To print a document:
	   abiword --to=ps --to-name=fd://1 FILENAME | lp

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to the Bugzilla bug tracking system at <http://bugzilla.abisource.com>.

SEE ALSO

       enchant(1)

HISTORY

       AbiWord	was  started  in  1998 by AbiSource Inc., a company founded by SourceGear corporation. The initial plan was to build a free office
       suite named AbiSuite, encompassing word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. As they didn't have a  usable  product  when
       their venture capital was up, the code already developed (namely AbiWord) was made open source.	AbiWord development was subsequently taken
       over by volunteers and is driven by the community to date.

AbiWord 2.8							    2009-12-11								ABIWORD(1)